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Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
BNN| February 28, 2024
Decades ago, a mathematician posed a warmup problem for some of the most difficult questions about prime numbers. It turned out to be just as difficult to solve...Quanta Magazine From ACM Careers | January 31, 2022
Researchers can fine-tune artificial neural networks using hypernetworks, saving some of the time and expense of training such networks.
Quanta Magazine From ACM Careers | January 27, 2022
Richard Peng and Santosh Vempala of the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed an algorithm that harnessing randomness to achieve a faster way of performing...Quanta Magazine From ACM Careers | March 10, 2021
Graduate student Nathan Klein and his advisers at the University of Washington, Anna Karlin and Shayan Oveis Gharan, have achieved a better way to find approximate...Quanta Magazine From ACM Careers | October 9, 2020
Computer scientist Carlos Gershenson of the National Autonomous University of Mexico finds that letting transportation systems adapt and self-organize often works...Quanta Magazine From ACM Careers | September 29, 2020
Mathematicians Joshua Greene and Andrew Lobb solved the century-old rectangular peg problem in geometry by brainstorming and holding weekly Zoom calls during the...Quanta Magazine From ACM Careers | June 29, 2020
The sensitivity conjecture stumped many top computer scientists for decades, yet the new proof is so simple that one researcher summed it up in a single tweet.
...Quanta Magazine From ACM Careers | July 26, 2019
Urmila Mahadev spent eight years in graduate school solving one of the most basic questions in quantum computation: How do you know whether a quantum computer has...Quanta Magazine From ACM Careers | October 15, 2018
Two mathematicians have found what they say is a hole at the heart of a proof that has convulsed the mathematics community for nearly six years.
Quanta Magazine From ACM Careers | October 2, 2018
While vacationing on the coast of Spain in 2012, the computer vision scientist Antonio Torralba noticed stray shadows on the wall of his hotel room that didn't...Quanta Magazine From ACM News | September 4, 2018
In statistics, abstract math meets real life. To find meaning in unruly sets of raw numbers, statisticians like Donald Richards first look for associations: statistical...Quanta Magazine From ACM Opinion | April 13, 2018
Sitting at the desk in his lower campus office at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, the neuroscientist Tony Zador turned his computer monitor toward me to show off...Quanta Magazine From ACM Opinion | April 9, 2018
Imagine, in the frigid depths of space, a pair of immense black holes crashing together so violently that they shake the fabric of space and time.
Quanta Magazine From ACM Careers | December 8, 2017
To distill a clear message from growing piles of unruly genomics data, researchers often turn to meta-analysis—a tried-and-true statistical procedure for combining...Quanta Magazine From ACM Opinion | June 12, 2017
Stefan Thurner is a physicist, not a biologist. But not long ago, the Austrian national health insurance clearinghouse asked Thurner and his colleagues at the Medical...Quanta Magazine From ACM News | February 6, 2015
On March 17, a panel of four astrophysicists held a press conference at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., to announce that they...Quanta magazine From ACM Opinion | July 11, 2014
Peering into his cabinet of curiosities on a recent spring day, Bob Willett, a scientist at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., nimbly plucked a tiny black crystal...Quanta Magazine From ACM News | May 20, 2014
As a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996, Amit Sahai was fascinated by the strange notion of a "zero-knowledge" proof, a type...Quanta Magazine From ACM News | February 5, 2014